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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause to happen; encourage |
| Synonyms: | abet, activate, actuate, argue into, breed, bring about, bring around, bulldoze, cajole, cause, coax, convince, draw, draw in, effect, engender, generate, get up, get*, give rise to, goose, impel, incite, influence, instigate, lead to, make, motivate, move, occasion, persuade, press, prevail upon, procure, produce, promote, prompt, sell one on, set in motion, soft-soap, squeeze, steamroll, suck in, sway, sweet-talk, talk into, twist one's arm, urge, wheedle, win over |
| Antonyms: | discourage, halt, hinder, prevent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attract, seduce |
| Synonyms: | allure, bag, bait, beckon, beguile, bewitch, cajole, captivate, capture, catch, charm, come on, decoy, drag, draw, enchant, ensnare, entice, fascinate, grab, haul, hit on, hook, inveigle, invite, lead on, pull, rope, steer, suck in, sweep off one's feet, tempt, train, turn on |
| Antonyms: | antagonize, disenchant, disgust, dissuade, repulse, turn off |
| Main Entry: | prevail upon/prevail on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | persuade, influence |
| Synonyms: | affect, argue into, bring around, convince, crack, dispose, draw, get, get around, impress, incline, induce, promote, prompt, put across, ram down throat, sell*, suck in, sway, talk into, win over |
| Antonyms: | discourage, dissuade, leave alone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sway |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | influence, affect |
| Synonyms: | bias, brainwash, carry, conduct, control, crack*, direct, dispose, dominate, get*, govern, guide, hold sway over, hook, impact on, impress, incline, induce, inspire, lead by the nose, manage, move, overrule, persuade, predispose, prevail on, put across, reign, rule, rule over, sell*, soften up, strike, suck in, touch, turn one's head, twist one's arm, whitewash, win over, work on |
| Antonyms: | leave alone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trap |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | catch, snare; trick |
| Synonyms: | ambuscade, ambush, beguile, box in, circumvent, collar, corner*, corral*, deceive, decoy, dupe, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, entrap, fool, grab, hook, inveigle, land*, mousetrap, nab, nail, net, overtake, rope in, seduce, snag, suck in, surprise, take, tangle, trammel, trip up |
| Antonyms: | let go, release |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prevail on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | persuade |
| Synonyms: | affect, argue into, bring around, convince, crack, dispose, draw, get, get around, impress, incline, induce, influence, prevail upon, promote, prompt, put across, sell, suck in, sway, talk into, win over |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Fool. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer; chowderhead, chucklehead; dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl; goose, goosecap; imbecile; gaby; radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natural, niais., child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop., oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony., bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead, jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead; numbskull, thickskull; lackbrain, shallowbrain; halfwit, lackwit; dunderpate; lunkhead [U.S.], sawney, gowk; clod, clod-hopper; clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate; bull calf; gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube [U.S.]; men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham., un sot a triple etage, sot; jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche., dotard, driveler; old fogey, old woman; crone, grandmother; cotquean, henhussy., greenhorn (dupe); dunce (ignoramus); lubber (bungler); madman., one who will not set the Thames on fire, one who did not invent gunpowder; qui n'a pas invente la poudre; no conjuror.
-phrases
fortuna favet fatuis; les fous font les festinas et les sages les mangent; nomina stultorum parietibus harrent; stultorum plena sunt omnia [Cicero].
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| Antonyms: | sage |
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